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This is not a Drake podcast

Breaking down seminal moments in Drake's career to explore the broader history and evolution of hip-hop, R&B, gender dynamics, and Black culture. Hosted by Ty Harper.

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This is not a Drake Podcast Introduces: Buffy

This is not a Drake Podcast Introduces: Buffy

Buffy Sainte-Marie is one of the most prolific singer-songwriters of the past century. For 60 years her music has quietl... Read more

11 Jul 2022

35mins

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Prologue

Prologue

One of the most popular rappers in America isn’t American. But this podcast isn’t really about him. Drake’s success is a... Read more

7 Jul 2020

12mins

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Ep 1: Toronto was always a hip-hop city

Ep 1: Toronto was always a hip-hop city

Drake is the poster boy of Toronto, although the city's hip-hop scene was thriving long before it became known to his fa... Read more

7 Jul 2020

47mins

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Ep 2: How the mixtape went digital

Ep 2: How the mixtape went digital

Even as its popularity grew, hip-hop was ignored by most commercial radio. DJs and artists intervened and underground mi... Read more

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37mins

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Ep 3: The rise of the Nice Guy rapper

Ep 3: The rise of the Nice Guy rapper

This episode contains explicit lyrics.Hip-hop feminists took the alpha male rapper and his critics to task in the 90s an... Read more

7 Jul 2020

44mins

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Ep 4: The rise of the singing rapper

Ep 4: The rise of the singing rapper

It's pretty common to hear rap and R&B influences on the same track, but that wasn’t always the case. Hip-hop was no... Read more

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Epilogue

Epilogue

Host Ty Harper examines how making this podcast during a pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests has underlined the... Read more

7 Jul 2020

13mins

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This is not a Drake podcast: trailer

This is not a Drake podcast: trailer

This is a story about hip-hop and how its journey to mainstream dominance gave us Drake in the first place. The mixtape ... Read more

21 May 2020

2mins

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